Class 11b Weblog
Welcome to the weblog of the class 11b. This year we're discussing the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Stuttgart: Klett, 2003.
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Verfasst am 01.03.2004 17:31:33 Uhr
Summary of Monster
The novel "Monster" is written by Walter Dean Myers. It is about a 16 year old black boy who is called Steve Harmon and lives in Harlem. Steve is on trial for felony murder. James King is also on trial. The story is set in the 1990's in New York. The book is written like a script. The reason of that is that Steve notes everything that happens and he want to make a film of that. While the story goes on, the situation of Steve gets very clear because of the short letters in which you see the feelings and thoughts of him.
James King claims that Steve was the lookout and so he was involved in the robbery. But Steve denies that, even that he was there at that time. But there are witnesses who say something different and so Steve gets untrustworthy. But at the end of the trial the Jury acquittes him and convictes James King with felony murder.
by Rifat
Verfasst am 01.03.2004 08:26:02 Uhr
summary of monster
The novel "Monster", written by Walter Dean Myers is about a black boy, 16 years old, who is on trial for felony murder. He is convinced of having been the lookout in the robbery, where James King and Richard Evans killed the owner of the store, the old Mr.Nesbitt. Though there are a lot of witnesses that testify against Steve, he is spoken innocent at the end. Steve' s passion is filmmaking, and therefor the whole book is written as a screenplay, that shows the emotions of the people in the book, and the cruel life in jail.
Verena
Verfasst am 01.03.2004 08:14:23 Uhr
Summary of Monster
The book "Monster" is written by Walter Dean Myers. It is about a 16-year-old boy called Steve Harmon, who is on trial for felony murder. The story is set in the 1990's in a courtrom in New York and in Cell Block C of the New York Detention Center. Steve is accused for beeing the lookout in a drugstore robbery where the owner, Mr Nesbitt, was killed and some packets of cigarettes were stolen. James King and Richard "Bobo" Evans testify that Steve was the lookout but he wasn't in the drugstore that day. Another witness, Lorelle Henry, confirmed that Steve wasn't there. Finally he is found innocend and James King and Richard "Bobo" Evans are found guilty.
by Franzi Z.
Verfasst am 01.03.2004 00:11:29 Uhr
Summary
Monster was written by Walter Deans Myers. The book is about a 16-year-old boy named Steve Harmen who is on trial for being a lookout in a felony murder. The story told from the main character's point of view, Steve Harmen and takes place mostly inside the courtroom in Manhattan and some is done with flashbacks. Steve and 2 other boys, James King, and Richard Evans have done the robery in the drugstore in Harlem were the owner, Mr. Nesbitt was killed at 4 o’clock and money and 6 packs of cigaretts were stolen, but Steve never became his part of the proceeds. James is being charged with the killing of the storeowner. Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides to transcribe his trial into a script for being objective and for finding out who he is. Between the 11 days of trail his hopes turn into doubts, and he is very feared of the verdict. At the end he is innocent and James King is guilty for felony murder. kathi 
Verfasst am 29.02.2004 22:38:23 Uhr
Summery of Walter Dean Myer's "Monster"
Steve Harmon a sixteen year old boy living in Harlem in the 1990s is on trial for murder. He is arrested in Cell block D of Manhattan Detention center because he was involved in a drugstore robbery where the drugstore owner Mr. Nesbitt was shot. Steve affirms that he is innocent but most of the witnesses testify against Steve. In the end he is acquitted and James King, who shot Mr. Nesbitt is found guilty. It doesn't become clear how far Steve was involved in the robbery and if he really only played the role of a "lookout".
The whole story is written as a script from Steve's point of view. To get more background information about Steve's feelings there are given personal notes of Steve while he wrote the screenplay.
by Steffi
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